10 thoughts on “Designing Google For LinkBait”

i was hanging out w/some google folks this evening as well, and they all took it with good humor. there was a good undercurrent that went something like “huh, i’ve never really considered what it would be like (trying to optimize for google)”. not sure it will, but hopefully this self-actualization might help simplify life for us little guys. maybe they will introduce something like yahoo’s paid inclusion where we can simply buy top results in algo (wait, that can’t be right, paid inclusion can’t influence where we rank…can it?!? 🙂

i know the fella who created this little firestorm of self-actualization at google, and no surprise, he knows a little about SEO from real life experience, both at digital impact helping clients w/SEO and from optimizing his new site (www.kango.com)

CORRECTION: 38% (23/60) of the publications account for 79% (140/177) of the links

🙂 nmw

ps: in any case — it appears to be a skewed distribution (somewhat like what might be expected according to Bradford’s Law). I was under the impression that Google’s results were supposed to “group” multiple listings (rather than to list several copies from the same domain. On average, there appear to be more than 6X (140/23) as many links from the multiply listed sources than from sources which are listed only once. FASCINATING! ;D

apparently Google’s advanced news algorithm is all of a sudden returning erratic results (at least for me it’s virtually nothing — like 1 or 2 sites ;). If somebody would like a copy of the results returned earlier today (12:45 CET), you can contact me via Facebook’s “domain names” group.

I and My Camping Mall (http://www.mycampingmall.com) belong to both Facebook and MySpace. There is a lot of crossover. Google shouldn’t have a problem setting up a new social network because many of the members of those two networks would just register with Google, plus Google would have its own following. Don’t believe Google needs their blessing.